Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement

Informationen zum Autor Zoë Thomas is Associate Professor in Modern History at the University of Birmingham Klappentext Women Art Workers provides a new social and cultural history of the Arts and Crafts movement which offers unprecedented insight into how women constructed alternative, creative lifestyles and disseminated the ethos of the social importance of the Arts and Crafts across new local, national, and international spheres of influence. Zusammenfassung Women Art Workers provides a new social and cultural history of the Arts and Crafts movement which offers unprecedented insight into how women constructed alternative! creative lifestyles and disseminated the ethos of the social importance of the Arts and Crafts across new local! national! and international spheres of influence. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Arts and Crafts movement, work cultures, and the politics of gender 1 Clubhouses and guild halls 2 Exhibiting the Arts and Crafts 3 'At Home' in artistic houses and studios 4 'Artistic' businesses and 'medieval' workshops 5 Out of the guild hall and into the city Epilogue Select bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Zoe Thomas, Zoë Thomas
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781526140432
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4043-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Gender in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), HISTORY / Women, ART / Women Artists, Arts and Crafts, History of Art, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Art & design styles: Arts & Crafts style